the importance of immediate and strict compliance with the directions. therein contained. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, H. W. HALLECK, Lieutenant of Engineers, and Secretary of State Captain J. S. FOLSOM, Assistant Quartermaster, San Francisco, California. STATE DEPARTMENT OF THE TERRITORY OF CALIFORNIA, SIR: The governor of the Territory directs that you will immediately make out and turn over to Captain Folsom your quarterly returns and other papers, for the quarter ending June 30, 1847, in accordance with the accompanying "circular" and blank forms. Your quarterly returns and accounts will hereafter be made out and forwarded immediately after the close of every quarter. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, H. W. HALLECK, Lieutenant of Engineers, and Secretary of State for the Territory of California.. WM. RICHARDSON, Collector, &c., &c., San Francisco, California. STATE DEPARTMENT OF THE TERRITORY OF CALIFORNIA, SIR: I am directed by the governor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 10th instant, with your account current of customs for the second quarter of 1847, and the enclosed vonchers. The governor directs that you will examine the accounts of the collector of the port of San Pedro, back to the date of his first appointment after our occupation of the country, in order to ascertain for what purposes the funds of the custom-house have been expended, and see if he has turned over to you all moneys due the government. You will report to the governor.the result of your examination. After reading the enclosed papers for the collector of the port, you will turn them over to Mr. Alexander. Please to impress upon his mind the importance of immediate and strict compliance with the directions therein contained. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, H. W. HALLECK, Lieutenant of Engineers, and Secretary of State for the Territory of California. Lieutenant J. W. DAVIDSON, A A. Quartermaster, &e., Los Angeles, California. STATE DEPARTMENT OF THE TERRITORY OF CALIFORNIA Monterey, August 20, 1847. SIR: I am directed by the governor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of July 16, enclosing the quarterly accounts and returns of the col lector of the port of Santa Barbara. These papers are satisfactory, except that there is no return of imports and exports. You will see that he makes out one immediately. After reading the enclosed papers for the collector, you will please turn over to him, and endeavor to impress upon his mind the importance of immediate and strict compliance with the directions therein contained. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, H. W. HALLECK, Lieutenant of Engineers, and Secretary of State for the Territory of California. Captain FRANCIS J. LIPPETT, Santa Barbara, California. STATE DEPARTMENT OF THE TERRITORY OF CALIFORNIA, SIR: I am directed by the governor of the Territory to say to you that your accounts and returns for the last quarter are satisfactory, except that you make no returns of imports or exports. You will please make out such returns and turn them over to Captain Lippett. Your quarterly accounts and returns will hereafter be made out and forwarded immediately after the close of every quarter, in accordance with the accompanying "circular" and blank forms. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, H. W. HALLECK, Lieutenant of Engineers, and Secretary of State Don PEDRO C. CARRILLO, Collector, &c., Sc., Santa Barbara, California. STATE DEPARTMENT OF THE TERRITORY OF CALIFORNIA, Monterey, August 21, 1847. SIR: The governor, requests that you will furnish him with the names of all persons owning or claiming lands within the limits of the survey which I received from you this morning, and the amount of land owned or claimed by each individual; and also, that you will give your opinion of the character of the title or claim in each case. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, H. W. HALLECK, Lieutenant of Engineers, and Secretary of State WALTER COLTON, Alcalde, &c., Monterey, California. STATE DEPARTMENT OF THE TERRITORY OF CALIFORNIA, SIR: I am directed by the governor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of August 5, asking for a new district, with an alcalde, &c. In accordance with your request, the governor has consulted Mr. Larkin on the subject, and they are both of the opinion that the matter had better be postponed for the present. It is quite possible that the increase of population in the district of Sonoma may render it necessary to establish a new district in the course of another year, but for the present it is deemed advisable to establish no new court unless the state of public affairs absolutely requires it. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, H. W. HALLECK, Lieutenant of Engineers, and Secretary of State for the Territory of California. R. SEMPLE, Esq., Benicia, California. STATE DEPARTMENT OF THE TERRITORY OF CALIFORNIA, SIR: In reply to your letter of the 19th instant, the governor directs that you do not interfere in the land question now in dispute between Mr. Forbes and Mr. Cook. All questions of land titles, unless they can be settled by arbitration, or some other amicable arrangement between the parties, must remain as they are until the proper judicial tribunals can be established for investigating and settling them. This order is in no way to affect the just rights of either of the aforesaid parties. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, JOHN BURTON, Esq., Alcalde of Pueblo de San José, California. STATE DEPARTMENT OF THE TERRITORY OF CALIFORNIA, Monterey, August 26, 1847. SIR: It appears from a letter just received from Lieutenant Carnes, that the collector of the port of Santa Barbara has called on him for payment of the collector's salary for the last two quarters. You were appointed by Lieutenant Colonel Burton to settle and audit the accounts of the collector of Santa Barbara, and receive from him the revenues of the customs, and the governor directs me to say that you have not been authorized to confer this duty upon any other person, and that you will still be held responsible for the expenditure and safe-keeping of said funds. In addition to the instructions sent you on the 19th " and 20th" of this month, the governor now directs that you will ascertain the date of Pedro C. Carrillo's first appointment as collector, and see that his accounts are settled back to that date. It appears that said Carrillo paid himself last quarter $188: of course, no such account can in future be passed. There is also another for $5, for 100 blank clearances. Please to report the facts in this case. The salary of the collector covers the making out of all his papers, and he cannot be allowed any pay for blanks. This item will, therefore, be regarded as part payment of his salary for the last quarter. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, H. W. HALLECK, Lieut. of Engineers, and Secretary of State " Captain F. J. LIPPETT, New York Volunteers, STATE DEPARTMENT OF THE TERRITORY OF CALIFORNIA, Monterey, August 27, 1847. SIR: You will procure the publication of the enclosed orders of the governor in each of the San Francisco papers: a single insertion will be sufficient. The expense of advertisement to be paid from the civil funds. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, H. W. HALLECK, Lieut. of Engineers, and Secretary of State Captain J. L. FOLSOM, Assistant Quartermaster, 'San Francisco, California. STATE DEPARTMENT OF THE TERRITORY OF CALIFORNIA, Monterey, August 27, 1847. SIR: The accompanying "circular" and blank forms are furnished for your instructions as collector. In examining your account for the 2d quarter of 1847, I find that you have made no returns of imports for that quarter. You will please make out one immediately and send it to the governor: your returns of exports, of customs collected, and also of vessels arriving at and clearing from the port of Monterey, do not include the month of April in that quarter. You will supply the deficiency, so that this office possession of the above information for the full quarter. may be in Hereafter your papers will be made out according to the enclosed in structions and blank forms. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, H. W. HALLECK, Lieutenant of Engineers, and Secretary of State T. H. GREEN, Collector, Monterey, California. for the Territory of California. HEADQUARTERS TENTH MILITARY DEPARTMENT, Monterey, August 27, 1847. SIR: Your communication of this day's date is before me, enclosing the correspondence between yourself and Major Hardie at San Francisco, relative to your claim to a certain lot in that town, which has been reserved for government purposes. You present no title papers, nor make any reference to where they are recorded. I therefore cannot touch the subject, in the manner in which it is at present presented. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, Colonel 1st Dragoons, Governor of California. A. B. THOMPSON, Monterey, California. HEADQUARTERS TENTH MILITARY DEPARTMENT, Monterey, California, August 27, 1847. SIR: Your communication of the 23d instant is before me, asking my interference in the case between yourself and Mr. West, concerning the attachment of your property near Sonoma. Any appeal from the judicial acts of the alcalde at Sonoma must come before me officially authenticated from that court. I cannot act upon a mere er partc statement; I must have the subject so presented to me from the court as to enable me to act understandingly. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, Colonel 1st Dragoons, Governor of California. A. B. THOMPSON, Monterey, California. STATE DEPARTMENT of the TERRITORY OF CALIFORNIA, August 30, 1847. SIR: The governor directs me to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 7th instant, relating to the suit of Castro vs. German. No election has been taken in this case since the decree and order of General Kearny, nor does Governor Mason intend, at present, in any respect to interfere with that decision. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, H. W. HALLECK, Lieutenant of Engineers, and Secretary of State for the Territory of California. GEO. HYDE, Esq., Alcalde of San Francisco, California. STATE DEPARTMENT OF THE TERRITORY OF CALIFORNIA, Monterey, August 30, 1847. SIR: In transmitting your appointment as alcalde of the pueblo of San José, the governor directs me to say to you that the growing interests of your town, and the great importance of having some competent and effi |